This volume contains the following manuscripts described as either an Inaugural Dissertation or an Inaugural Essay presented to the University of Maryland for the Degree of "Doctor of Medicine" or "Doctor of Physic" : Pneumonia / by Thornton, Oscar A. ; Acute Pleuritis / by Getz, Charles ; Medicine as a Science and an Art / by Dunn, Conally L. ; Hygiene / by Linthicum, Thomas Waters ; Sporadic Dysentery / by Warder, John Irwin ; Anaesthesia in Labor / by Wilson, S. Kennedy ; Diphtheria / by Brodbeck, John R. ; Cholera Infantum / by Kibler, Benjamin F. (title page on back of last page) ; Postpartum Hemorrhage / by Rider, William B. ; Scarlet Fever / by Dietrich, William A. ; Differential Diagnosis of Scarlet Fever / by Groton, William D. ; Puerperal Hemorrhage / by Bell, Henry R. ; Typhoid Fever / by Brooks, H. M. ; Lesions Situated at the Mitral Valve / by Rivers, Edmund C. ; Typhoid Fever / by Thompson, F. H. ; Intermittent Fever / by Patrick, George R. ; Pneumonitis / by Romero, Jose L. ; Intermittent Fever / by Wayson, William A. N. ; Intermittent Fever / by Lacy, John H.